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  • from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...
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  • Ravana (Sanskrit: meaning "of terrifying roar") is one of ... could be expected, he continues to endure as the archetypal villain in the ...
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  • was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later ... around 1366, after which she began to attend the poor. She had visions which ...
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  • enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... series, including those featuring Noddy, the Famous Five, and the Secret ...
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  • In Judaism, the yetzer harah is the inclination or impulse to evil ... (Ḳid. 81a). It was to avoid the temptations of the yetzer harah ...
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  • The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition ... While the Arthaśāstra tradition played a key role in the establishment ...
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  • genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... in the style of soul groups such as The Temptations and The O'Jays ...
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  • c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His works contain ...
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  • controversial Russian mystic who influenced the latter days of the Russian ... and his alleged intimate relationship with the Tsaritsa Alexandra, became ...
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  • Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... Taylor was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, before attending ...
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  • friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in what ... The play is a compelling account of the temptations of power, and Wallenstein ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... The Sanskrit word Sita literally means "the line made by the ...
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  • The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... monks" would never survive the temptations of the city. ...
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  • famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western monastic tradition ... Benedict founded 12 monastic communities, the best known being Monte Cassino ...
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  • 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature ... with the modernization of society and the temptations of Western values. ...
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  • Saint Anthony the Great (251 - 356 C.E.), also known as Saint Anthony ... in Bishop Athanasius's Vita Antonii - the source of many tales of his ...
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  • Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... true morality consists in resisting the temptations of self-sacrifice, sympathy ...
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  • greater spirituality. Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body ... The term "ascetic" derives from the ancient Greek word askēsis ...
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  • Brown, and Harriet Tubman, all who worked in the abolitionist cause, if not ... she pointed out the need to reject the temptations of drink and other weaknesses ...
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  • and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace ... man and a committed Whig, he was part of the scheme to overthrow James ...
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  • remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ... Gower was very popular in his own times, and his influence on the ...
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  • | Associated_acts = The Moonglows, Martha and the Vandellas, Tammi ... quot; (which featured backgrounds from The Temptations), "Baby Don't ...
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  • The Malleus Maleficarum Translator Montague Summers consistently uses ... or Der Hexenhammer (Latin/German for "The Hammer of Witches" ...
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  • have no physical explanation. In these cases the creatures bear more similarity ... virtues and vices of human nature, and the temptations into which human beings ...
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  • Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the ... 1970s with acts such as Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Diana Ross and the ...
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  • ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept of sin is ... others see it as a vulnerability to the temptations of an angel called Satan ...
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  • Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... a part of human custom since pre-history. The practice is mentioned in the ...
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  • editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism ... She began writing at an early age, and by the time she met Dmitri ...
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  • music inspired by or attempting to replicate the mind-altering experiences ... and "Psychedelic Shack" (by The Temptations), "Reflections ...
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  • Restoration literature is the English literature written during the ... individual saint can prevail against the temptations of mind and body that ...
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  • The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, ... 's impact and legacy was not limited to the U.S., but was worldwide, including ...
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  • singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... #039;" and singing lead to The Temptations' "My Girl ...
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  • novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern ... colonial-era corruption in the city; the temptations of his position overwhelm ...
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  • from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the ... was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school ...
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